Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Skype getting activated on eBay

It has been nine months since eBay has purchased Skype for $2.6 billion. And yesterday eBay has announced that it is ready to include the Skype phone on 14 of its auction listing categories. These were selected to be those that might demand the biggest amount of interactivity between the buyer and the seller which could be facilitated by a quick and free computer phone conversation.

Many eBayers are excited about the new internet phone feature while some are apprehensive about putting the Skype button on their listings because of the prospect of being flooded by phone calls.

Another service that eBay is currently testing, called eBay alerts,will be able to place cellphone calls to buyers, alerting them to status of their bids.

Google is also currently testing a 'click-to-call' advertizing service.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home